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Download some useful apps for storage. Our UCLA accounts include large amounts of storage in Google Drive and Box. Humnet email users also have access to OneDrive. All of these have apps that I find to be really are user friendly for iPhone.
Set up folders in the app of your choice. If I knew which texts I would visit that day, I would Try to be as specific as possible: name the folder accordingly with the date, institution, and bibliographic information for the text you are looking at.
When on site
Turn the flash off. This protects the materials and avoids drawing attention to what you are doing.
If possible, adjust the settings on your phone’s camera to take high quality photographs. File size should not be an issue with Drive and Box. (Here is Apple’s support page on “How to take and edit photos with your iPhone, iPad and Ipod Touch”.)
Take photographs directly through the app of your choice, or try the scan feature.
Photograph the cover and any pages of your source text with bibliographic information.
Include the whole page (with page number) in the frame. You can always zoom in or crop the photo later.
Try not to cast shadows on the source text.
Of course, don’t break the spine of a book, and be gentle when handling materials.
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Save those photographs! Google Drive and Box will sync your files from your phone to your desktop or the cloud; make sure this happens, then put a copy somewhere else, too. I like to have at least Pro tip: keep 2 copies of everything, in two different places (in case one place is compromised).
Organize your files. This includes renaming the files you created earlier and putting your photos in order.
When you are finished, delight in the fact that you have created digital versions of your primary sources. I use my You will likely find that you use your digital texts constantly for reference in my your dissertation, in presentations at conferences, and in my your teaching.
Main photo courtesy of Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/en/book-scanner-iphone-1237530/ ) used under the CCO Creative Commons license.
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